Improvements to Onshape - November 9th, 2018

Another 3 weeks, another amazing update from Onshape including some highly requested features! Customers who have submitted tickets that are addressed by improvements in this release will be notified in the coming days. If you have improvement requests, please submit your ideas here. Let us know what you think.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

REPLACE PARTS IN AN ASSEMBLY

You can now replace parts in an assembly with any other part, even from other documents or standard content.

DRAWING CALLOUTS ALIGNMENT

Drawing callouts can be aligned vertically and horizontally with the first selected callout in a selection from the context menu.

DUAL UNITS PANEL IMPROVEMENTS

In the dimensions panel, there are improved options for control over dual units. By default, a dimension will follow what's set in the drawings properties panel or you can select for the chosen dimensions to either show single or dual units independent of the drawing properties.

IMPROVED INSERT VIEW DIALOG WITH SCALE OPTION

New with this update is a view scale option added to the insert view dialog. You can set your drawing view scale upon insertion instead of needing to perform a secondary action.

UPDATE DRAWINGS DURING VERSION CREATION

When creating a version you will now be notified if any drawings are out of date along with the ability to update those drawings through the version creation dialog.

BEND NOTES AND HOLE CALLOUTS IN PROPERTIES PANEL

Bend notes and hole callouts are added to the annotations tab of the drawing properties panel. Here you can modify the font, text height, and color of the bend notes and hole callouts.

ENTERPRISE FEATURES

SPECIFY USERS FOR RELEASE CREATION

In Enterprise, you can now specify who is allowed to create a release candidate as a global permission to go along with the existing ability to control who can approve releases. Remember, global permissions are controlled by an enterprise administrator.

REPORTING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

This update includes performance improvements to enterprise analytics reports. Initial report opening time is now faster as well as navigating between different reports within a session.

Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the Onshape changelog.

Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.

Comments

Awesome and a great way to start the weekend! Don't forget to check the Changelog. There are some goodies hidden in there. Thank you to everyone at Onshape for finally implementing Replace Part in an Assembly. I hope this is leading up to some assembly configurations in our future

Replace Part in assembly is a great improvement, this will come in very handy. Also, the scale view before inserting is a nice touch to drawings, I nearly always have to change after inserting but this will make it much easy to get it right first go.

For replace part, what is the ETA for replacing mates? That's a pretty big deal. It can be a separate command, or a checkbox (replace mate) as long as it also gives you the option to replace all mates with the same connection. Separate command would be have more power in the long run, but no reason it couldn't also be a checkbox in the replace dialogue also

In solidworks this separate command is just a prompt when you edit an existing mate's broken or missing selection, which is better, because it doesn't require the user to even realize that is possible. It's always a pleasant surprise (Best feature to come out of solidworks since the close button).

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It is awesome we can line up balloons now without drawing a line then snapping to it, but it would be nice to be able to align parallel to a selected object, or at ISO angles. To follow along a conveyor line for example.

@john_mcclary - John, thank you as always. The guys/gals work very hard on this stuff and we all read these comments. As you know by now, we release an initial take on something and then collect feedback from the users and then have a second or third round. It's not that we forget to do something, or aren't smart enough to know that we should do something - it's a process (this is more for others than for you ). So you let us off lightly, you dont want the option to have the balloons equally spaced?

@john_mcclary - John, thank you as always. The guys/gals work very hard on this stuff and we all read these comments. As you know by now, we release an initial take on something and then collect feedback from the users and then have a second or third round. It's not that we forget to do something, or aren't smart enough to know that we should do something - it's a process (this is more for others than for you ). So you let us off lightly, you dont want the option to have the balloons equally spaced?

Sorry if I sounded like I was saying you forgot or whatever, I know better than that (I just over explain stuff, a.k.a. Ramble)

Yea equally spaced is good once in a while, but I do tend to have that option Off more often with magnetic lines in SW. The parts are not usually equally spaced and I think it looks nicer when all the lines are shooting off at the same angle, rather than the balloons being equal.

@john_mcclary - I wasn't busting your coco's - you're absolutely right and we need that feedback! Good feedback on the equally spaced perhaps being less important than other things.We have some major projects in the pipeline and we are all very excited to give them to our users between now and (best guess) the end of January - hold onto your hats!

Great improvementsReplace part looks promising... It may be a good option to allow select a part in the assembly as replacement part

We are happy to see so many improvements in drawings.

I just tried a replacement of a weldment tube very similar to the picture here of Eduardo's, unfortunately, in this case, it replicates the part at the original global zero position, it would be nice if we could have an option to replace a part centroid to centroid of the body.

Am I the only one who is constantly struggling with inserting parts into assembly? Search is useless since it shows all the parts in the world (public) and there's no folder structure in insert dialog. Only labels, which are very handy but not prompted to add when creating new document.

I would like to see very soon in insert dialog:- Search only My documents - Folder structureand- Ability to add labels to new doc in naming dialog (before opening doc)

Am I the only one who is constantly struggling with inserting parts into assembly? Search is useless since it shows all the parts in the world (public) and there's no folder structure in insert dialog. Only labels, which are very handy but not prompted to add when creating new document.

I would like to see very soon in insert dialog:- Search only My documents - Folder structureand- Ability to add labels to new doc in naming dialog (before opening doc)

Is there an existing improvement request for "replacing a part referenced in a drawing view"? I'm embarrassed to ask because I might already have voted on it and can't remember like so many other things these days!